curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/history/history-item-id' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/history/{history_item_id} (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Get History Item

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/history/history-item-id' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| history_item_id | path | string | Yes | History item ID to be used, you can use GET https://api.e... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"character_count_change_from":17189,"character_count_change_to":17231}

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GET

/v1/history/{history_item_id}

ElevenLabs API

Get History Item

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

Actions

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/history/history-item-id' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
history_item_id	path	string	Yes	History item ID to be used, you can use GET https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/history to receive a list of history items and their IDs.

Response 200 OK

{
  "character_count_change_from": 17189,
  "character_count_change_to": 17231,
  "content_type": "audio/mpeg",
  "date_unix": 1714650306,
  "history_item_id": "ja9xsmfGhxYcymxGcOGB",
  "model_id": "eleven_multilingual_v2",
  "request_id": "BF0BZg4IwLGBlaVjv9Im",
  "settings": {
    "similarity_boost": 0.5,
    "stability": 0.71,
    "style": 0,
    "use_speaker_boost": true
  },
  "source": "TTS",
  "state": "created",
  "text": "Hello, world!",
  "voice_category": "premade",
  "voice_id": "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM",
  "voice_name": "Rachel"
}